Khonzael…Khonzael

Kunai asked, "Soooo how exactly are we going to open a sealed tombbbbbb?"

Nel replied, "Tch. Fool. With brute strength of course. We all combine our powers together and destroy the area around it. Carving another path."

Yuna responded to Nel, "Easier said than done, Nel."

"WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT CALLING ME BY MY NAME?! BASTARD! MURDERER!"

"If the top of the tomb is sealed off, then maybeee the other sides of it are too. I don't think whoever created this tomb is dumb at all, not providing any loopholes for anyone to get inside."

"Pfft. Then what the hell do you suggest we do?"

"Flames of Zabel. I used this spell earlier to massacre some of the bandits you were with. But if I placed the Flames of Zabel on top of this platform, the cursed energy from the flames would dissolve the entire area, including the seal that's placed on this tomb. It's so cool."

Nel replied, "Damn you to hell."

Kunai asked Yuna, "Ohhh yeah! I remember seeing when you did that! But are you sure it'll work? Like, how do you know it'll work?"

Yuna laughed nervously, "Haha, actually, I'm not sure. But one time, I used Flames of Zabel on a king that tried to seal himself in his castle after I killed everyone including his guards in the kingdom, and it dissolved it really fast."

"King killer?! Reminds me of Kohnzael! The famous assassin of kings!"

Yuna thinks, 'Shit. I almost gave myself away…'

Nel scoffed, "Of course you did. A Dark Order member like you would easily rampage through a kingdom, killing everyone including children. And yet, I see no guilt on you face when you said that. Saying it like it's an every day thing."

Yuna thinks, 'It's true. Men, women, children, mythic household pets…whenever I would be ordered to assassinate a king, I have to kill everyone within his kingdom as well. And once I did that, it kept anyone from becoming an heir to throne, bringing a high ranking Dark Order member to claim the throne and becoming a king. That's how I had became king at such a young age when I was Khohnzael.'

Kunai shoved Nel, "Aw come on, Nel! Not everyone is perfect!"

Nel rolled her eyes, "Whatever. This Yuna bastard here is about my age, and the things he's done deserves him death."

"How old are you?"

"18."

Kunai then asked Yuna, "How old are you?"

Yuna replied, "19."

"THATS GOOD! YOU AND NEL CAN GET MARRIED-."

Yuna and Nel both punched Kunai in the face at the same time, launching him through a tree.

Yuna sighed, saying to Nel, "You're so quick to judge me, fixed on the fact that you think I'm in the Dark Order…what makes me different than the bandits you were with?"

Nel looked down at the ground, replying, "They…were villains among man, they killed men, women, children, elderly, and even burned down churches. They weren't good people, but they were my people. They took me in, fed me, clothed me, and made me stronger. Strength is what I longed for since the village fire, and those so-called bandits gave me strength. Encouraging me to hunt down all the Dark Order members because of what happened when I was little. And I was forever grateful for it. They didn't have a choice, doing what they did, you know? Since the Dark Order's arrival, it shifted the lifestyle of everyone who was trying to live a normal life. Including mine, and those bandits. They didn't have a choice."

"Wrong."

"What?"

"They did have a choice…everyone does. As for me, I had one…but it cost me heavily."

Nel thinks, 'I had a choice too. And it actually cost me living freely, without being able to do my own thing. I admit I was under their wing, but too tightly. I was overprotected by them. But still, I adored them. Maybe this Yuna kid was brought up just like me, joining the Order without much of a choice. He may be a murdering sack of shit, but he's not like any other Dark Order member I've seen. Maybe…me and Yuna aren't so different..'

Nel and Yuna were staring at each other for at least 20 seconds, until Kunai came up, smiling, "AWWW!"

Yuna and Nel looked at Kunai, scoffing, "Shut up!"

Yuna turned to the stone platform, chanting silently: "Flame of Zabel.."

Yuna's hand was covered in black flames, and he put his hand on the platform, and the platform was covered in black flames also.

Yuna said to Nel and Kunai, "Step back. These flames react to people other than me if they're around, they might catch hold of you. Your skin was dissolve brutally."

Nel said, "You don't tell me what to do. I'll back up myself."

Nel and Kunai backed up a few inches, and Yuna kept his hand on the platform, and the stones were dissolving.

Kunai said, "Oo, it's working!"

The platform was burning away, melting to the ground, and Yuna fell through, exclaiming, "Ah!"

Kunai shouted, "Yuna!"

Kunai jumped in the hole, and Nel followed right behind, saying to Yuna, "How dare you try to die without my permission?"

….

All three of them were walking through a dark and dirty hallway, and Nel complained, "It's dark as hell in here. I know you got something in that bag that shines, Kunai."

Kunai was already holding his Jholnur magic weapon, with the white flames lighting up the area around them.

Kunai smiled, "Already prepared!"

Yuna thought, 'He's close…really close…we're closing in on him.'

Yuna said to Nel and Kunai, "That treasure, let's go ahead and find it."

Kunai repliee, "Right! Follow my lead! Because I have the light and stuff."

Nel asked Kunai, "Do you have any clue where you're going, shit for brains?"

"No clue!"

They continued to walk, as the air was getting thicker.

Yuna mentioned, "Air is getting thick, super heavy…I want some water now."

Nel replied, "Dude, we don't need you monologuing every five sec-."

Kunai exclaimed, "Look!"

He flashed Jholnur around, and it illuminated the entire room.

Nel said, "Shit…"

Yuna added, "Holyyyy…"

The room had hundreds of golden boxes that had corpses of kings and queens in them, lined up beside each other and in front. There were relics and artifacts surrounding them as well. The room was cave-like, it had stone walls with vines sticking out of them.

Kunai exclaimed, "Annnd we hit the jackpot! Dig in! Carry all that you can, and I'll carry as much as I can!"

Yuna sensed something else, sending a shivering down his spine.

He stopped Kunai from moving, grabbing his arm, saying, "Wait."

"Huhh? What now?"

Yuna smiled, and a black aura of darkness was flowing from his body. He smirked menacingly, clenching his fists in excitement, "Ahh…so it's you…Kroven?!"

Something in the darkness glowed golden, and then when it turned around slowly, it showed the entire figure. It was a man with red skin, with black and bright glowing gold tattoos all over his body. He had pitch black eyes, and long black and red hair in long braids. He stood at 14 feet tall, and he fully turned around as the entire room illuminated from the glowing gold boxes the dead corpses were in.

Kunai and Nel were in shock, sweating due to Kroven's Intimidating glare. Yuna sweated a little bit with the same grin, saying, "Haha! I'm not familiar…am I, Kroven?!"

[XP points gained : 1000. Located a Dark Order member. Order rank - Disciple. Name : Kroven.]

Yuna read the system, and thought, 'Four ranks among the Dark Order: Apostles being number one, Disciples behind number two, Evangelists being number three, and Avalon being number 4. Each rank in the Dark Order was based on how much you do for the cause of spreading the influence of the Celestial "god" of darkness. The Apostles are the ones who determine who much you rank up or how much you derank; humbling members to prove themselves much more. The higher you rank up, the more power the Celestial of Darkness gives to you. And the thing is, no one from the Order has seen or talked to the Celestial. But some Apostles claim they heard him in dreams and visions.'

Kroven stared at them all for a few seconds without saying a word.

Then he said, "Do you know-."

Yuna dashed across the room holding a black sword made of darkness, slashing it at Kroven. Yuna missed, and Kroven was standing somewhere else in the room, slowly pulling a large glowing gold and black baby out of his chest.

He said, "Do you know…what me and the corpses of the fallen laying in the golden coffins have in common? Many years ago, during the war…they thought they were going to defeat the giants; if they banded together with their magic…they would win. The giants gain more power from the consumption of humans with high levels of mana. They would always send scouts to spy on all the allied kingdoms across the borders of Medhaven, Walkstire, Elklaid, Bindrest, and North Beiger. The giants weren't so stupid, they planned out everything, reporting back what they had seen and heard."

Kroven held the glowing black and gold baby out, holding it by the head with one hand.

Kroven continued, "The giants prepared for war, ready to invade the kingdoms of the humans. They prayed to the Celestial they worshiped, asking for strength and mercy; they desired the power of the Celestials themselves."

Nel heard this, thinking, 'Celestials…I've heard about them. They're something like deities in this world, worshiped like gods by those who serve them for favor.'

Kroven continued even more, "They were blessed with a small hint of power from the Celestial of giants, and that went out to fight. They clashed with the humans, and easily won. But right after they won, they all were slaughtered by their own Celestial, due to the fact that the giants summoned their Celestial down to try and consume him next since they thought they were strong enough, getting greedy. And they were killed swiftly because of their betrayal."

Yuna smirked, "Oh yeah? The hell does that have to do with you?"

Kroven quickly crushed and splattered the gold and black glowing baby, making Nel and Kunai gasped in awe.

Nel said, "He crushed that baby… you bastard!"

Kunai added, "He's scary…but look at Yuna…he doesn't look scared at all.."

Nel looked at Yuna, adding, "That fool…"

Kroven chanted: "Dark Magic : Shadow of Combustion."

The baby's blood was black and gold as well, and it flowed into the body and veins of Kroven. Kroven then grew taller at 17 feet tall, He grew four giant black wings on his back, and his body had black pointy spikes sticking out of it, and the gold tattoos on him started to glow brighter.

He started to float in the air as the golden coffins shook, and there was a trumpet sound.

Nel and Kunai panicked, saying, "What's happening?!"

Kroven said, "I say all that just to ask you, purple haired boy…who are you? Your aura of darkness is familiar, but I have never seen you. I detected from down here that you were a member of the Order itself, but I have never heard of you. How are you with dark magic, if we do not recognize you? How are you with us, if you are oozing with bloodthirst towards me, wanting to kill me? Speak."

Yuna replied, "Hehe…I remember hearing that a member was sent to a tomb as punishment for failing a task from the Apostles, sent down here as punishment, haunted by the dead thoughts of the atmosphere, their past clouds your thoughts, you haven't been able to sleep, have you? I…I am vengeance…you bastards took what I earned away from me, and I don't know why, but I will find out. As for now, I will kill all of you, all of the Dark Order, with the Dark magic I was born with."

"Insolence. No one is born with Dark magic. The only one who claimed to have that was-."

"Khonzael…" Yuna grinned maliciously.

"Khonzael is dead. His body was disintegrated, and his heart eaten by a mythic beast."

"Why?"

"Why is it any of your concern?"

"Because…I am him."

Nel and Kunai said, "What?!"

The coffins shook more, and then suddenly, corpses wearing glowing gold armor with blood dripping from it, holding glowing gold weapons with white tarps over their faces. There were hundreds of them, coming out of the boxes.

Nel said, "They're being aroused?!"

Kunai suggested, "It must be that guy's power!"

Kroven said to Yuna, "You cannot be him. Soul transmigration magic is something of old, something between the dark voids between space and time. That magic itself is only accessible for the Celestials. And the Celestial god of darkness would not save you if it was in his will that you be killed, for the Apostles heard him well, and carried them out. You are a phony."

Yuna laughed hysterically, and then looked at Kroven, saying, "I didn't wanna blow my cover…but I really got carried away."

Kunai exclaimed, "Yuna…!"

Nel said, "No fucking way this is happening right now.."

Yuna put one hand on his face, and exposed only both of his eyes, and chanted : "Khonzael…"

Yuna's eyes went pitch black with black flames coming out of them, some parts of his skin turned gray and black, he grew four black curling horns on his head, he grew giant black wings on his back, and he had a black halo hovering over his head which had black flames coming out. His teeth got sharp, and he grew three spiked black tails behind him.

Yuna said with a monstrous deep voice, "I will kill all of you."

Nel and Kunai were in shock, they didn't have many words to say,

Kroven said, "That spell is a unique spell only HE has. Khonzael…lives it seems. In this new body. It was the Celestial of Darkness's will to have you destroyed. If I am able to please him, killing you, one of the stronger Dark magic users, I shall become an Apostle."

Kroven dashed forward with his undead army of powerful kings and queens.

Korven had a straight face, saying, "I will destroy you."

Kunai exclaimed, "Welp! Looks like you're up, Jholnur! Time to fight zombie royaltyyy!"

He sprinted forward, and Nel exclaimed, "Wait, fool! Shit!"

'What did I get myself into?! Undead kings and queens trying to fight, a Dark Order member being in here…and is Yuna really Khonzael?!'

Yuna was darting through air, and he and Kroven locked eyes, looking to kill each other, both thinking at the same time:

'I will win!'